"If it's not good for people to eat, why does it taste so good?" mooted
Dan meditatively....
"Now I'll be in for it," he added, as we walked out of the door and
started back to the Health Home.
"But your father need never know."
"At first I thought it might be all right to fool him just this once.
But I mustn't. I've promised him I'd never lie to him about what I ate,
and I must keep my word ... he'll whip me, perhaps."
"Does he whip you much?"
"Not very much ... only when I need it ... and then when I cry, he
stops--so it is never very hard!"